Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-17

Satan was playing Tor their bones at tn
same time, and was sure to SWEEP all tn,
stakes off on his side of the table. Tn,
last New York Legislature sanctioned th,
mighty evil last spring by passing q Law
for its defense at the race tracks, an(
many young men in these cities
LOST ALL THEIR WAGES
at Coney Island this summer, and this fal
are borrowing from the money tills Of theil
employers or arranging by means of tails.
entry TO adjust their demoralized finances
Every man who voted for the Ives Poo
Bill has on his hands and forehead the BLOOD
of these souls.
But in this connection some young con
verts say TO me: is il right to pla,
cards? 1t there any harm in a game o
whist or euchre?" Well, / know good
men who play whist, and euchre, and 9th
er styles of game without any wsgers
had friend who played cards with hi.
wife and children and then at the Gloss
said: Come, now, let US have prayers. y
l will not Judge other mems consciences
but | tell you that cards are in my mind
so associated with the temporal and eter
nal damnation OF splendid young men, tha,
/ should no sooner say to my family
"Come, let US have a game Of cards, v
than would 10 into q menagerie and
say: 'Come, let US have q game of rattle
snakes" or into cemetery, and Sitting
down by marble slab, say to the grave.
digeers: Come, let US have o game o
skulls" Conscientious young ladies ART
silently saying to me while speak: "DC
you think card. playing will do US any
harm?' Perhaps not, but how will you
feel if in the great day Of eternity, when
We are asked 10 give an account of our in.
fluence, some man shall say 10 you: ~
was introduced to games Of chance in the
year 1887, in Brooklyn, at your house, and
went on from that sport to something
more exciting, and went on down until
lost my business, and lost my morals, and
lost my soul, and these chains that you
see on my wrists and feet are the chains OF
gamester's doom, and am on my way
to gamblers hell" Honey at the start,
eternal catastrophe at the last"
Stock gambling comes into the same cat.
alogue. II must be very exhilirating to
go INTO Wall street, New York. or State
street, Boston, or Third street, Philadel
phia, and depositing small sum of money,
run the risk of
TAKING OUT A FORTUNE.
Many men are doing an honest and safe
business in the stock market, and you are
an ignoramus if you do not know that il i
Just as legitimate TO deal in stocks as tC
deal ia coffee, or sugar, or flour. But
nearly all the outsiders who 20 there on a
little financial excursion lose all. The old
spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies I
had friend who put his hand on his hip
pocket and said TO me in substance: 81
have there the value Of hundred and fifty
thousand dollars" His home il TO. day
penniless. What was the matter? Wall
street. OF the vast majority who are
victimized you hear not one word
One great stock firm goes down,
and whole columns of newspapers
discuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But where
one such famous firm sinks, five hundred
unknown men sink with them. The
greater steamer goes down, and all the lit
tie boats are swallowed in the great enguli.
ment. Gambling is gambling, whether in
stocks or breadstuffs, or dice or race track
betting, Exhileration at the start. and a
raving brain, and shattered nervous sys.
TEN, and q sacrificed property, and de-
stroye dsOul at the last Young man, buy
no lottery tickets, purchase no prize pack
ages. bet on no base ball games or yacht
racing, have no faith in luck. answer nc
mysterious circulars proposing great in
come for small investment. shoe away the
buzzards that hover around our hotels try.
ing TO entrap strangers. Go out and make
an honest living Have God on your side
and be candidate for heaven. Remember
ALL THE PATHS OF Sin
are banked with flowers at the start, aud
there are plenty of helpful hands TO fetch
the gay charger to your door and hold the
stirrup while you mount. But further or
the horse plunges to the bit in a slough in
extricable. The best honey is not like
that which Jonathan took on the end OF
the rod and brought TO his lip, but that
which God puts on the bsnqueting table
of Mercy, at which we are all invited to
sit. was reading Of a boy among th,
mountains of Switzerland ascending dan
gerous place with his father and the guides
The boy stopped on the edge of the cliff
and said: There is a flower mean t0
get" Come away from there, ;" said the
father, lyon will fall off," mo- said
he, 81 must get that Ieautiful flower ~
and the guides rushed toward him TO pull
him back, when they heard him say, 81
almost have It," as he fell two
thousand feet. Birds Of prey were
seen few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually 10
the place where the corpse lay. Why seek
flowers off the edge of precipice when
you may walk knee deep amid the full
blooms Of the very Paradise Of God?
When a man may cit at kings banquet,
Why will he go down the steps and con-
tend for the gristle aud bones Of hound =
kennel? ''Sweeter than honey and the
honeycomb." " says David, lis the truth Of
God" with honey out of the rock
would have satisfied thee" says God TO
the recreant. Here il honey gathered
from the blossoms OF trees oflife, and with
a rod made out Of the wood Of the cross ]
dipit up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells OF an smbrosia
and nectar, the drinking ofwhich would
make men live forever, and one sip OF
this honey from the Eternal Rock will give
you immortal life with God. Come of OF
the malarial levels Of q
sinful life. Come and live
on the uplands Of grace, where the
vineyards sun themselves. Oh, taste, and
see that the Lord is gracious. BE happy
now and happy forever. For those who
take differant course the honey will turn
to gall. For many things have admired
Percy Shelley, the great English poet, but
| deplore the fact that it was q great
sweetness to him 10 dishonor God. The
poem, Queen NAL. has in it the malign-
ing Of the Deity. The infiel poet was
impious enough TO ask for Rowland Hill's
Surrey Chapel, that he might denounce
the Christian religion. He was in great
glee against God and the truth. But he
visited Italy and one day on the
Mediterranean with two friends in o boat
which was twenty -four feet long, be wa